This Old Town ✖️Muke

Chapter 41

(Michael)

"seriosly Luke?" I gape at him, when All Time Low leave the room.

"what?"

"you really just brought us backstage to my favorite band's concert and we got to meat them and now apparently we are having a band battle. fuck Luke are you trying to kill me?" i breath out all at once.

"calm down Mikey. i'm sorry i didn't tell you what was going on but i wanted it to be a surprise."

"it's ok, but still, how are we supposed to compete with them? we haven't played as a band since we were kids."

"ya but we've played our instruments" he says Looking at the three of us.

"you have played you're instruments haven't you?" he asks, looking between Ash and Cal who are standing there rubbing the back of their necks.

"uh, not really" he sighs.

"ok then, get over there and practice. clean the cobwebs off and then i'll teach you my song." He pushes us into a room connected to the one we're currently in. the one the band apparently practices in because it had instruments.

"i really hope you are prepared to make a fool out of yourself Lukey" Cal says when we walk in and Ashton all but runs to the drum kit.

"come on Cal, i said you are one of the best bassists i have ever met. That hasn't changed. come on guys," he says, Picking up the half black and half red bass and the purple electric. He then walks over and puts them in our hands.

"i know you're not rusty" He says to me.

"so want to teach me the guitar bit while they're catching up?" i turn to Luke who is grabbing  Alex's old guitar that i recognize from the old concert DVD.

"ok so if were doing Figure me out, it starts with Piano,ill see if i can find one in a minute, but the rest of you don't come in till the end of the first verse. so when i finish you come in with this" he lay the cords. I watch his hands and nod, understanding it.

"you all come in at the exact same time. and its kind of repetitive for the chorus through the song. then the solo" he plays it for me. wow. he got really good. well, he did have good teachers.

"think you could do this?" he looks up. i nod, looking down at my fingers on the neck of the guitar, place my fingers on the cords where he did and i play from memory of what he said. i then stop at the solo and ask him to play it again for me. after he does i manage to do it fine. it's been a long time since I've played an electric guitar.

"you got it?" he asks. i nod, smiling at him when he stands up to go help Ash and Cal.

"i knew you would, you were always the one who know what was going on during our shows and YouTube days.He laughs. thats true actually. there is one of our really early videos of just the two of us playing Check Yes Juliet by We The Kings and i knew how to play the song so i was telling him what line came next. i laugh at the memory because its so ironic that he's the one that got famous and he couldn't even remember the words.

"ok so i can only really play a bit of drums so bare with me." i over hear Luke say. wait. what?

"you play drums?" i ask. Cal must have heard because he is walking over as well. Luke nods and shrugs.

"kind of. Ryan has been teaching me so i can manage a tune. umm" i watch as he bites his lip where the Lip ring used to be and picks up the drum sticks.

"so as i mentioned to Mike,you all come in on the same beat so Ash you come in with this." he says, then plays what i guess is the intro to the song.